There are really no drawbacks to state Republicans to letting the roads fall into disrepair since Democrats will shoulder the blame. It’s all upside getting this funding cancelled.

Off topic, but with DeCSS the problem wasn’t that it was proprietary or a trade secret. Once the algorithm got out, it was out. Since it had been a trade secret, there was no patent protection on it.

However, some laws and treaties prohibit distributing code that circumvents copy protection schemes, and this is where they ran into trouble.

And that’s why they were all those songs and t-shirts and other free speech items made with the DeCSS algorithm on them. Eventually the cases were dropped.

Because software makes the world go 'round, and people are better than LLMs at software, and companies like to make money, and building product makes money. At least that’s why I think it’s going to bounce back.

Look on the bright side: if AI ever gets better then humans at coding, it’ll be better than humans at a lot of things and the global economy will collapse.

I was just going to say this. The modal part is the important part. Helix seems great, but I was unable to find a killer feature to draw me away.

The funny thing is I really liked the old JS prototypal inheritance. :)

I’m a firm believer in “Bruce Lee programming”. Your approach needs to be flexible and adaptable. Sometimes SOLID is right, and sometimes it’s not.

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

And some languages, like Rust, don’t fully conform to a strict OO heritage like Java does.

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

You can set git’s difftool to vimdiff. That is admittedly outside of the current editing session, though.

Very cool. Especially the idea of retrofitting existing vessels.

But keeping them there just makes good business sense.

He’s not wrong—Biden fucked that up good—but Trump kept those policies, too, something NVIDIA was shrewd not to mention. By the time Trump finally offered half an olive branch, it was far too late.

Honestly, I write virtually everything as markdown in Vim. The only time I get out of that is when I have very specific formatting requirements and I don’t feel like messing with LaTeX or I need to submit a Word document.

Plain text is superior due to lack of dependencies. 😁

Additionally, the citizens who support this kind of government surveillance are fine with a few innocents getting charged.

Ministry of Truth

One of our geology grants got hit for mentioning mineral inclusion. Total clown show.

The kleptocracy in action.

I don’t understand why the US’s plan to increase healthcare costs, keep wages flat, increase energy costs, cut research funding, and make training unaffordable isn’t globally competitive. The only people that seem to be doing better than ever are the billionaire elites. It’s a real head-scratcher, I tell ya what.

Sparingly. I use chatgpt to help with syntax and idioms when learning new languages. And sometimes I use it to help determine the best algorithm to use for a general problem. Other times I feed in working code and ask for improvements like a mini code review

The only time I had it code something from scratch for me was when I wanted some Vimscript and I didn’t want to learn it. I tried the same thing with jq and it failed and I had to learn me some jq.

I hate popups in editors in general (no intellisense for me), so I lothe AI trying to auto complete my code.

But I was told that rich people like musk and Trump weren’t swayed by money because they had enough… 😂

My thoughts exactly. If you want to destroy the US software industry, this is a great way to go about it. Coupled with making it as difficult to get trained as a software developer, of course.

Dad taught college and got tired of this game. So he wrote his own book and students could print copies in the print shop for $10.

Now that I’ve gone on to teach college I’ve continued that tradition, except online for $0.